Luke 20:1,2
THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS. The challenge of the Jewish leaders:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS. The challenge of the Jewish leaders:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT ON ONE OF THOSE DAYS, AS HE TAUGHT THE PEOPLE IN THE TEMPLE, AND PREACHED THE GOSPEL, THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES CAME UPON HIM WITH THE ELDERS,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, TELL US, BY WHAT AUTHORITY DOEST THOU THESE THINGS, OR WHO IS HE THAT GAVE THEE THIS AUTHORITY? On one of those days, the last days before the great Passion, on Tuesday of Holy Week. See Luke 21:23; Mark 11:27. Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple after His custom,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, I WILL ALSO ASK YOU ONE THING; AND ANSWER ME:... [ Continue Reading ]
The answer of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BAPTISM OF JOHN, WAS IT FROM HEAVEN OR OF MEN?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY REASONED WITH THEMSELVES, SAYING, IF WE SHALL SAY, FROM HEAVEN, HE WILL SAY, WHY, THEN, BELIEVED YE HIM NOT?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AND IF WE SAY, OF MEN, ALL THE PEOPLE WILL STONE US; FOR THEY BE PERSUADED THAT JOHN WAS A PROPHET.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY ANSWERED THAT THEY COULD NOT TELL WHENCE IT WAS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, NEITHER TELL I YOU BY WHAT AUTHORITY I DO THESE THINGS. The challenge of the Jews Jesus answered with a counter question, which incidentally contained the answer they demanded. For His question implied that He personally knew John's ministry to have been a divine commission... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN BEGAN HE TO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE THIS PARABLE: A CERTAIN MAN PLANTED A VINEYARD, AND LET IT FORTH TO HUSBANDMEN, AND WENT INTO A FAR COUNTRY FOR A LONG TIME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The parable of the wicked husbandmen:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AT THE SEASON HE SENT A SERVANT TO THE HUSBANDMEN THAT THEY SHOULD GIVE HIM OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINEYARD. BUT THE HUSBANDMEN BEAT HIM, AND SENT HIM AWAY EMPTY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN HE SENT ANOTHER SERVANT; AND THEY BEAT HIM ALSO, AND ENTREATED HIM SHAMEFULLY, AND SENT HIM AWAY EMPTY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN HE SENT A THIRD; AND THEY WOUNDED HIM ALSO, AND CAST HIM OUT. Luke gives the beginning of this parable in a very brief form, omitting the detailed account of the planting of the vineyard. See Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1. Jesus told this parable to the people, but in the presence of at least s... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID THE LORD OF THE VINEYARD, WHAT SHALL I DO? I WILL SEND MY BELOVED SON; IT MAY BE THEY WILL RELEVANCE HIM WHEN THEY SEE HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The climax of the story and its application:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE HUSBANDMEN SAW HIM, THEY REASONED AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, THIS IS THE HEIR; COME, LET US KILL HIM, THAT THE INHERITANCE MAY BE OURS.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEY CAST HIM OUT OF THE VINEYARD AND KILLED HIM. WHAT THEREFORE SHALL THE LORD OF THE VINEYARD DO UNTO THEM?... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL COME AND DESTROY THESE HUSBANDMEN, AND SHALL GIVE THE VINEYARD TO OTHERS. AND WHEN THEY HEARD IT, THEY SAID, GOD FORBID!... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE BEHELD THEM AND SAID, WHAT IS THIS, THEN, THAT IS WRITTEN, THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THE SAME IS BECOME THE HEAD OF THE CORNER?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSOEVER SHALL FALL UPON THAT STONE SHALL BE BROKEN; BUT ON WHOMSOEVER IT SHALL FALL, IT WILL GRIND HIM TO POWDER. The patience of the master of the vineyard is brought out with remarkable power. He deliberates upon the situation with himself, finally concluding to send his only, his beloved son.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES THE SAME HOUR SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM; AND THEY FEARED THE PEOPLE, FOR THEY PERCEIVED THAT HE HAD SPOKEN THIS PARABLE AGAINST THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES CONFUTED. The question of the Pharisees:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WATCHED HIM, AND SENT FORTH SPIES, WHICH SHOULD FEIGN THEMSELVES JUST MEN, THAT THEY MIGHT TAKE HOLD OF HIS WORDS, THAT SO THEY MIGHT DELIVER HIM UNTO THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNOR.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING, MASTER, WE KNOW THAT THOU SAYEST AND TEACHEST RIGHTLY, NEITHER ACCEPTEST THOU THE PERSON OF ANY, BUT TEACHEST THE WAY OF GOD TRULY.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS IT LAWFUL FOR US TO GIVE TRIBUTE UNTO CAESAR, OR NO? So embittered were the scribes and the chief priests on account of the merciless frankness of Jesus that they sought to lay violent hands upon Him in that very hour. But their fear of the people caused them to take such a step under advisement.... [ Continue Reading ]
The answer of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE PERCEIVED THEIR CRAFTINESS AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHY TEMPT YE ME?... [ Continue Reading ]
SHOW ME A PENNY. WHOSE IMAGE AND SUPERSCRIPTION HATH IT? THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, CAESAR'S.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, RENDER THEREFORE UNTO CAESAR THE THINGS WHICH BE CAESAR'S, AND UNTO GOD THE THINGS WHICH BE GOD'S.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY COULD NOT TAKE HOLD OF HIS WORDS BEFORE THE PEOPLE; AND THEY MARVELED AT HIS ANSWER, AND HELD THEIR PEACE. Jesus, the omniscient Son of God, noticed their craft, their sly cunning, even before they started to make their request. And He is not wanting in the frankness which they have just pr... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME TO HIM CERTAIN OF THE SADDUCEES, WHICH DENY THAT THERE IS ANY RESURRECTION; AND THEY ASKED HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
The question of the Sadducees:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, MASTER, MOSES WROTE UNTO US, IF ANY MAN'S BROTHER DIE, HAVING A WIFE, AND HE DIE WITHOUT CHILDREN, THAT HIS BROTHER SHOULD TAKE HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP SEED UNTO HIS BROTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WERE THEREFORE SEVEN BRETHREN; AND THE FIRST TOOK A WIFE, AND DIED WITHOUT CHILDREN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SECOND TOOK HER TO WIFE, AND HE DIED CHILDLESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE THIRD TOOK HER; AND IN LIKE MANNER THE SEVEN ALSO; AND THEY LEFT NO CHILDREN, AND DIED.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAST OF ALL THE WOMAN DIED ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE IN THE RESURRECTION, WHOSE WIFE OF THEM IS SHE? FOR SEVEN HAD HER TO WIFE. See Matthew 22:23; Mark 12:18. The chief priests and scribes having ignominiously failed in their attack, the Sadducees hoped to have better luck with a catch question which they had devised upon the basis of a stor... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO THEM, THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD MARRY AND ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE;... [ Continue Reading ]
The answer of the Lord:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY WHICH SHALL BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO OBTAIN THAT WORLD, AND THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, NEITHER MARRY, NOR ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE;... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER CAN THEY DIE ANY MORE; FOR THEY ARE EQUAL UNTO THE ANGELS; ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, BEING THE CHILDREN OF THE RESURRECTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THAT THE DEAD ARE RAISED, EVEN MOSES SHOWED AT THE BUSH, WHEN HE CALLETH THE LORD THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE IS NOT A GOD OF THE DEAD, BUT OF THE LIVING; FOR ALL LIVE UNTO HIM. First of all, Jesus corrects an entirely false idea which the question of the Sadducees showed them to be holding or to be inferring from the belief of others. So long as people are in this present physical world, they are su... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CERTAIN OF THE SCRIBES, ANSWERING, SAID, MASTER, THOU HAST WELL SAID.... [ Continue Reading ]
The counter-question of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THAT THEY DURST NOT ASK HIM ANY QUESTION AT ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, HOW SAY THEY THAT CHRIST IS DAVID'S SON?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DAVID HIMSELF SAITH IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS, THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD, SIT THOU ON MY RIGHT HAND,... [ Continue Reading ]
TILL I MAKE THINE ENEMIES THY FOOTSTOOL.... [ Continue Reading ]
David therefore calleth Him Lord, how is He, then, his Son? The answer of Jesus had been so convincing that even some of the scribes had to admit that He had spoken well. And all the enemies having been vanquished and no longer daring to ask any questions, the Lord, on His part, assumed the offensiv... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN IN THE AUDIENCE OF ALL THE PEOPLE HE SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES,... [ Continue Reading ]
A warning against the scribes:... [ Continue Reading ]
BEWARE OF THE SCRIBES, WHICH DESIRE TO WALK IN LONG ROBES, AND LOVE GREETINGS IN THE MARKETS, AND THE HIGHEST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES, AND THE CHIEF ROOMS AT FEASTS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES, AND FOR A SHOW MAKE LONG PRAYERS. THE SAME SHALL RECEIVE GREATER DAMNATION. In the hearing of all the people Jesus sounded this warning against the scribes, for they all should know what the situation was. The scribes among the Pharisees were the most dangerous of them a... [ Continue Reading ]